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2 July 2021, Hiroshima, Japan – UNITAR’s Division for Prosperity is launching a revised programme to mobilize women entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs in Afghanistan to address food insecurity, public health, and unemployment in the country. Supported by the Government of Japan, the programme will equip women entrepreneurs with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes to turn their ideas into self-led businesses and projects that support recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. It will help women entrepreneurs meet urgent domestic needs in Afghanistan as well as play...
20 April 2022, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently signed an agreement to deliver a joint online course on Trade, Food Security and Nutrition for officials from Eastern and Southern Africa. This is an updated version of the same course delivered in 2019 which generated a great interest across the region.
The increasing need for trade experts to support trade related development agenda in the region has posed a major challenge. National and regional institutions need to develop technical capacity ...
International Women’s Day is an important reminder of the enormous role that women have historically played and continue playing in their communities and globally for the achievement of a peaceful and sustainable future. Yet, at UNITAR, we believe that celebrating women and their achievements should go beyond a single – albeit important – date, as each day presents opportunities to take an active step towards gender equality and the empowerment of women.
Therefore, starting on 6 March 2020, UNITAR will launch a social media campaign #TakeAStep dedicated to the amplificati...
4 June 2020, New York City, USA – During the past two months, the UNITAR office in New York has successfully maneuvered the complexity of the COVID-19 situation, and it has been continuing its delivery of high-quality online training programmes such as:
Global Diplomacy Initiative (GDI) programme
two interactive training programmes in collaboration with the Columbia Law School
first module of the training series in preparation for the General Assembly’s 2020 Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review (QCPR)
‘Defining Transformation: A Global Food System’, co-hosted with...
30 November 2018, New York, United States – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in New York and the New York based music education company Time Ranger Inc. co-hosted a one-day seminar on Music Education and Sustainable Development on Friday, 30 November 2018 in the United Nations Headquarters.
UNITAR firmly believes in the value of inclusive arts, and cooperating with the Time Ranger Inc. offered us a great opportunity to promote sustainable development goals, especially on Good Health and Well-Being (Goal 3), Quality Education (Goal 4) and Redu...
3 March 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently signed an agreement to re-run its joint online course on Trade, Food Security and Nutrition to be delivered in Russian language for officials across Europe and Central Asia. This is an updated version of the same course delivered in 2018 which generated a great interest across the region. The joint course in 2018 was able to accommodate only 25% of the applications received.
In the preparation of this course, FAO draws from its extensive experience with...
29 September 2022, Osaka, Japan, and Geneva, Switzerland – As part of their well-established partnership, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and Takeda (TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK), a global pharmaceutical leader and an active member of the United Nations Global Compact, are pleased to announce a new joint initiative focused on strengthening countries’ healthcare systems to meet patients’ need for plasma and plasma-derived therapies. The initiative will draw on UNITAR’s expertise in training and education toward the development of innovative so...
国連ユニタール持続可能な繁栄局は新規プログラム「生活基盤の向上を目指して：ポーランド在住ウクライナ避難民女性のためのデジタルリスキリング研修」の開会式をワルシャワ市内で開催しました。
政府関係者、教育機関関係者、NGO、研修参加者の代表らが開会式に参加しました。
2023年10月から2024年3月まで実施される同研修プログラムには、ポーランド在住の約500名 のウクライナ避難民女性が参加する予定です。
ユニタール持続可能な繁栄局にとってウクライナ避難民を対象とした初の研修となります。
同プログラムは、日本国政府ならびに国民の皆様のご支援により提供されます。
, 2023年 10月 26日、広島 - 国連訓練調査研究所（UNITAR）持続可能な繁栄局は、2023 年 10月 16日、新規研修プログラム「生活基盤の向上を目指して：ポーランド在住ウクライナ避難民女性のためのデジタルリスキリング」の開会式をワルシャワ市内で開催しました。政府関係者、教育機関関係者、NGO、研修参加者の代表らが参加しました。, 開会式では、初めに隈元美穂子ユニタール持続可能な繁栄局長が、同プログラムの運営にあたりお力添えくださった来賓やパートナーの皆様に謝意を述べました。
私たちは今日、ウクライナの方々を支援するためここに共に立...
A month into the Haiti tragedy, the relentless work of the Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) in producing geospatial information to support relief and more recently to estimate damage in view of reconstruction is attracting praise from UN organisations and member states alike. UNOSAT has already completed one mission to Haiti, while the next one is due to commence on 20 February. The work on the ground is done in conjunction with Haiti’s national centre for geographic and spatial information (CNIGS).
UNOSAT produced the first maps in the immediate…
A breakthrough initiative by the One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership is bringing students together via video link to talk about climate change, informing the climate debate and adding new perspectives to climate change education across the globe.
By Sara Tchaparian// 30th March 2017 // Climate Change Education// Youth
“What will the future be like when the glaciers have melted because of climate change?”
This is a question put to a class of Swiss teenagers via video link by 16-year old Joyce Jelasi from Malawi. It conjures up images of a potential…